A DAY OFF – Photographs from the F.C. Gundlach Collection

Schleswig City Museum
April 29 - August 14, 2022

The exhibition A DAY OFF , featuring works from the F.C. Gundlach collection, takes an amusing look at the grotesque manifestations of our leisure culture. A total of 69 works by internationally renowned artists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Weegee, Peter Keetman, Lisette Model, Dirk Reinartz, F.C. Gundlach, and contemporary photographers like David Hockney, Thomas Höpker, Martin Parr, and Esther Haase are on display.

The exhibition playfully illustrates just how absurd and irrational our leisure activities have become. Health and fitness either seem to play no role at all or are taken to extremes: people feast, cook, smoke, and sweat to their hearts' content. One could almost think that organized leisure time within fixed structures, like that practiced in the early days of sports and leisure clubs, was more relaxing. Especially since our current leisure activities are unfortunately more externally determined than we often realize or would like to admit. Even if the exhibition "A DAY OFF" can be seen as a plea for the sweet art of doing nothing, after the pandemic we will all certainly be glad to finally be able to let loose and have fun again without a care in the world. And we've also learned to simply slow down a bit.

The exhibition was specially conceived for the Schleswig City Museum by the curators of the F.C. Gundlach Foundation, Jasmin Seck and Natalja Aljasova.

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24837 Schleswig

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